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The City of Miami Code Enforcement Board convened on October 1, 2026, at 10:00 AM to adjudicate a docket of code violation cases. The meeting included granting extensions of time, mitigating fines, and holding initial hearings on new and existing violations. No agenda or minutes were available.
The board unanimously granted 120-day extensions to six property owners, including Felicia Mendez (2140 SW 19th Terrace), Lucillo Ramos (853 NW 3rd St), Michael Burrell (8600 NE 10th Ct), Alberto Sanguinet (3130 SW 8th St, two units), Maria Sargastaghi (1599 W Flagler St), and Mario Maecha (1855 NW 27th St). The city recommended the 120-day period in each case.
Owners pleaded guilty or not guilty to violations. The board imposed compliance deadlines and per diem fines.
Mr. Keon Williams. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you. Good evening. If you're here this evening, you're either here for the first time here asking for additional time or here to mitigate a fine that's been imposed against your property. When your case is called, if you're here for the first time, go ahead and come up to the podium, state your name and address. The chair will ask you if you're pleading the property guilty or not guilty. That means that if at the time the violation was issued the property had the violation, it might be guilty, but you can plead not guilty if you choose so. Once your case is done, there's a paper at this podium that tells you how to ask for additional time if you cannot comply by the days that the board gives you. That paper is your golden ticket. Because if you cannot comply by the time the board gives you, and you ask for an extension of time before that day comes, the fines won't start running. But if you miss that day and the next day comes and you don't comply and you didn't ask for an extension of time, that's when the penalties start running against your property. So take that piece of paper, that's your golden ticket. If you're here for an extension of time, come up, state your name, the address, tell them what you've done, and the city will give its input on how many days you need. If they give you more days, maybe you should take more days, the more the better. The board will vote and you'll be on your way. If you're here for mitigation, which I only think there's four or five of you here tonight, there's this piece of paper. I don't know if she gave you the chart. If she hasn't given it to you, come and get it. It tells you what the board can and can't do regarding mitigation and the type of property that you have. The board is bound by this chart. They cannot do anything better than this chart. So go ahead and take a look at it while you wait. There's some copies over here. Uh for the four or five of you that are here for mitigation. When you're done with your case, wait over here and I'll bring you your order. Otherwise, if you're here for an extension of time or for the first time, once you get the number of days and and how much time we have to comply, you're free to leave. And all orders of the board are appealable to the 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida within 30 days. And Mr. Chair, we're gonna start with EOTs, which I think we only have three or four. We have mitigations and then to be Herds. Gotcha. And before we do that, do we have any um excuse absences from the last one? Yeah, I don't I haven't gotten an email of any excused absences. If there are any, the clerk hasn't given them to me. I mean, but okay. Excuse absences? Yeah.